In a message dated 1/31/01 10:40:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
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<<She finally got to talk with the doctor today and he said to go off the
medication for a week and then come in for a check, and then he would
adjust to a normal level. He said that it would take a week for the levels
to return to normal.>>

Pat, this doctor gives me the "willies"?  Is he an endocrinologist?  First he 
has her way up--than not at all?  Imagine the shock to her body while 
lactating?  No synthroid could create the same problem as too much synthroid. 
 In other words, if her thyroid becomes underactive during this week of no 
medication, she could also experience a reduction in milk supply.  I am not a 
medical doctor, but even with the lay knowledge that I have, I know that this 
mother needs needs NORMAL thyroid levels, and that would require a reduction 
of medication--not total abstentia for a week.   I wonder if he knows what he 
is doing?  I cannot imagine my doctor providing the advice that this doctor 
has.  I am truly nervous about this doctor.

                  --  Debbie Albert, Ph.D., IBCLC   

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